Don't be a Spock - Adjust your monitor height

Some practical guidance for all you guys working on your PhDs: http://www.xadamdx.com/2010/08/dont-be-spock-adjust-your-monitor.html.

3 shell scripts to improve your writing, or "My Ph.D. advisor rewrote himself in bash."

Fun read!

The hardest part of advising Ph.D. students is teaching them how to write.

Fortunately, I've seen patterns emerge over the past couple years.

So, I've decided to replace myself with a shell script.

See: http://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voice-weasel-words-duplicates/.

Some good advice from the guys at Cornell

There's a long list of links with tons of good advice for PhD students at this site: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/czars/mentor/. I loved the one about getting your abstract rejected by Mary-Claire van Leunen and Richard Lipton.